Spring Marathon (1996)

Vasily Rumyatsev plays guitar and sings.

Dawn, view of the parking lot (timelapse).

Rumyantsev's room - a panorama of a carpet on the wall, a guitar.

Large - the face of Rumyantsev.

Rumyantsev is making an ad for the "dating" column in the newspaper.

Carpool, Rumyantsev goes through the territory, communicates with the drivers.

Rumyantsev is driving a truck, leaving the territory of the carpool, driving down the street.

Krupno - Rumyantsev at the wheel.

Large - plate "Editorial Office of the newspaper "Evening Sverdlovsk"".

Rumyantsev climbs the steps, enters the building where the newspaper editorial office is located.

Rumyantsev walks through the foyer.

A truck is driving along the highway, a view of the road, vehicles.

Photos of skyscrapers.

Fragments from the letters of a foreigner who is looking for brides in Russia, with photos.

Shots of Russian women on the streets of the city.

Rumyantsev is in his apartment, in the kitchen, cooking.

There is a samovar on the table, a cassette recorder next to it.

Rumyantsev pours water from a teapot into a cup, makes tea.

Says Rumyantsev.

Rumyantsev is in the bathroom, washing a budgie in a cage.

Rumyantsev is in the room, next to the cage with the parrot Yasha.

Says Rumyantsev.

Rumyantsev takes a parrot out of the cage, holds it in his hands.

Says Rumyantsev.

Bird market.

Rumyantsev walks around the territory, looks around.

There is a girl in the frame, Rumyantsev looks at her.

Aquariums with fish.

Shots with women, girls.

Large - goat.

Rumyantsev strokes the chicken.

Women sell rabbits, Rumyantsev passes by, looks at the rabbits.

The general plan - Rumyantsev goes through the market, different shots with sellers, buyers, animals.

A cage with budgies, canaries, Rumyantsev looks at birds.

A woman at the car sells a pig.

Rumyantsev takes the pig in his arms, looks at him, smiles.

Panorama of the windows, loggias of a residential apartment building.

Rumyantsev comes with a cage in which a budgie sits.

Entrance, mailboxes - Rumyantsev picks up a bundle of letters.

Rumyantsev is at the table, opening various letters, reading (there is a voiceover on behalf of the women who wrote the letters).

The girls climb the stairs to the park, there is a young man standing at the top.

A young couple is sitting on a park bench.

Couples are walking along the road.

A young man is standing at the top of the stairs, waiting for someone.

A woman is coming.

A young man is standing at the top of the stairs, waiting for someone.

Close-up - the finger points to an ad in the newspaper.

Rumyantsev is on the phone with the woman from the ad.

Large - boxes with milk.

The goods are loaded into Rumyantsev's car.

Rumyantsev is at work, in the office, talking on the phone with another woman from the dating ad.

Rumyantsev is near his car, helping to load boxes.

Rumyantsev is talking on the phone with the woman from the ad.

Loading is finished, Rumyantsev closes the car body.

Rumyantsev talks on the phone with the woman from the ad, writes down the address.

View from the window of the city, the factory buildings, the river.

Rumyantsev is on the phone.

Rumyantsev is in the apartment, washing windows, shaving at the mirror.

Rumyantsev leaves the registry office on the arm of a woman with a bouquet of flowers, kisses her, the couple walks down the road.

Rumyantsev is sitting with a woman in a room, showing her his parrots in a cage.

Says the woman.

Rumyantsev is at work, giving away the cargo.

A showcase in a stall, people buy the press, A large - an announcement of acquaintance (a woman writes).

Rumyantsev is at work, in the office, calling on the phone, talking to another woman.

Panorama of the city, buildings and pipes of the plant, in the distance you can see the river, bridge, new buildings.

Large -blooming cherry.

The trees are in bloom.

Along the embankment, people are walking, a young couple is walking.

A bird's-eye view of the city.